ENGLISH
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FRENCH
Salutations à des êtres rationnels de cette ère de l'informatique! En ayant un site web vous sont désormais reconnus et respectés en tant que citoyen du village global. Vous n'êtes pas plus raciste,chauvine, ni une un religieux paroissial. Vous êtes un fils ou une fillespéciale du Créateur Tout-Puissant qui nous a donné le macrocosme et le microcosme de partager. Laissez-nous vivre en paix comme nous devrions, héritiers égal aux avantages que nous tirons de se HOMO SAPIENS! S'il vous plaît visitez
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GERMAN
Grüße an Rational Wesen dieser Computer-Zeitalter! Durch eineWebsite, die Sie jetzt anerkannt und respektiert als Citizen of theGlobal Village. Sie sind nicht mehr ein Rassist, ein Chauvinist noch eine engstirnige Glaubensgenossen. Sie sind eine spezielle Sohn oder die Tochter des allmächtigen Schöpfers, der uns gegeben hat,der Makrokosmos und Mikrokosmos zu teilen. Lasst uns in Friedenleben wie wir sollten, gleich Erben, um die Vorteile wir aus Homosapiens! Bitte besuchen Sie
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SPANISH
Saludos a los seres racionales de esta era de la informática! Al tener un sitio web que está ahora reconocida y respetada como un ciudadano de la Aldea Global. Tú no eres más racista, chovinista, niun religioso parroquial. Usted es un hijo o una hija especial del Creador Todopoderoso, que nos ha dado el macrocosmos y elmicrocosmos de compartir. Vivamos en paz, como debemos,herederos igual a los beneficios que se derivan de ser homo sapiens! Por favor, visite
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The most rational way to inculcate love, justice and peace among all men and women in the world is to jettison man-made doctrines and dogmas invented and patented by any and every religious leader. The Creator did not need artificial compilations for any and every creature he made. He is omnipotent as well as omniscient, so he embedded all the rules each creature needed to serve him, live a good life and be in good terms with all other creatures on his planets. The scriptures assert that everything created was/is good!
Man has created nothing. No angel or demon can create. No one can stop or change the destiny the Creator has for each being living in this world. Man has only been uncovering the secrets locked in the created universe and misappropriated the praise and honour due to the creator. That is why whatever man has invented is misused sooner than later. Man kills whatever it did not create and as the law of compensation demands, man has always paid with gradual or sudden death through internal dissatisfaction with the self, emotional depression, ethnic jealousies and mass homicide that resulted and still results in political or religious genocide, fratricidal and international wars.
Check the history of mankind from the creation story in scriptures of all religions and show me any that had no religio-political undertone? Inter-religious harmony could have been instituted centuries ago since all cultures had legends similar to the one man, Enoch, who pleased the Creator so well, that he was translated to enjoy eternal bliss in fellowship with the Supreme Being. There is no scripture in the world that does not accept that there is only one Supreme Creator of all that exists. The only difference is that some explain away polytheism as if God has an administrative structure similar to our mundane ways of ruling ourselves. There are really no pagans in this world! Replace their many gods and spirits with angels and prophets, you will notice for the first time that you have the same result; One God, One Created Universe and therefore One Human Family.
We are all his sons and daughters, though with varied facial differentiations, but, we have the same anatomy and physiology with same blood chemistry, similar genetic classifications and finally we mate and produce human babies alike! Laughter, crying and singing are international languages. Anger, fear, hatred, depression and sorrow are human emotions that have no boundaries. Conception, gestation and birth are exactly the same as well as the modalities of dying due to accidents, diseases or old age. What else does any intelligent being need to prove that all humans are equal at birth, but differentiations arise due to parentage, geographical locations, education and inherited or achieved social statuses occasioned by opportunities each one experiences in both clement or unfavourable internal and external environments?
Interracial squabbles are man-made! The non-partisan events we organise like the World Cups and Beauty Pageants confirm we are children of one Father and so could live amicably. Scientific discoveries and inventions, like the cellular phones, the variety of computers and the Internet all of us use passionately prove that all mankind can live in peace. Let us eschew ethnocentric bias, religious bigotry, social prejudice and parochialism. The multiplication of faiths, denominations and churches are the handiwork of the evil one. Let us wake from centuries of hypnotic enslavement and justify our claim to the appellation: HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENTIS!
Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez, D. Sc.,
Humble Vessel of the Holy Spirit of the Creator
Email: saintkenez@yahoo.co.uk
Website: www.happyfamilynetwork.hpage.com
WHY NOT JOIN US AS CITI ZENS OF THE GLOBAL VILLAGE THAT OUR WORLD HAS TURNED INTO?
All who
are dedicated to the enthronement of Global Peace among all human beings on
planet earth by finding lasting solutions to the variety of inhumane
relationships among nations and social classes brought about by inter-religious
bigotry and strife are designated; CITIZENS OF THE GLOB AL VILLAGE.
Every professional can easily assimilate all that the Holy Spirit has been
teaching us about ONE ALMIGHTY CREATOR, ONE CREATED UNIVERS E AND
THEREFORE, ONE HUMAN FAMILY that should have only ONE WORLD RELIGION that
can usher in A LASTING PEACE TO OUR GLOBAL VILLAGE.
We must
rediscover the saintly/religious lifestyle of Patriarch Enoch that was narrated
in Chapter 5 of Genesis and re-introduce Obedience to All Natural Laws as the
only veritable option that can guarantee ONE WORLD RELIGION. Double-faced
Christians/Muslims exist who worship Satan at night and still come to
churches/mosques in daylight! This lifestyle has eroded the credentials of our
forebears! There is now, an urgent need to redeem our children from these nefarious
practices! We must revert to the legacies of our renowned grandfathers, improve
on it and bequeath the next generation a better religious legacy than we now
have!
Religious symbols have been borrowed across cultures and religious
boundaries for centuries that they rarely mean same things to a variety of
fanatical followers or worshippers of the plethora of religions and
denominations in our present world. How do we penetrate centuries of historical
distortions of the originals to define the pristine truths from nature that
were established by our Creator so that we can arrive at the most objective
version that is egalitarian and applicable in all cultures, time and clime for
world peace? Or, put in another fashion, how can we be certain that the doctrines
and dogmas we hold on to today were/are not merely fake theories from the past?
In short, how do we sift truth from beliefs, myths, legends and/or fables
forged and fabricated by sages of old; demagogues whose objectives were merely
manipulating the masses of their generation into reverencing and/or obeying
them sheepishly? This is the task before all of us. It is the only way to
arrive at ONE WORLD RELIGION.
Is it not cynical that each nation
had prayers said for its soldiers before each battle during the world wars,
crusades and jihads? WERE THEY PRAYING TO THE SAME GOD? Religion is politics,
but many uninformed adherents are hoodwinked into believing that “God” is their
President General. He was/is the supreme dictator and priests and imams were only
human administrators. In the current craze for wealth engaged in by fake
pastors, evangelists and overseers, exploitation in religion wears different
gowns; church/mosque levies, pilgrimages, compulsory offertory collections,
harvest and bazaars. To date, centuries after some colonised nations have won
pseudo-political independence; none is independent of religious domination by
their erstwhile religio-political masters. The wonder of it all it that the
above-underlined scenario is what has been happening and will continue to
happen in churches/mosques all over Africa “world without end! Amen!” The
congregation is short-changed by their wry religious leaders who wine, dine and
womanise while they go a-borrowing to take care of their children’s health, education
and other familial duties unaided by any one!
The most rational way to inculcate love, justice and peace among all
men and women in the world is to jettison man-made doctrines and dogmas
invented and patented by any and every religious leader. The Creator did not
need artificial compilations for any and every creature he made. He is
omnipotent as well as omniscient, so he embedded all the rules each creature
needed to serve him, live a good life and be in good terms with all other
creatures on his planets. The scriptures assert that everything created was/is
good! There is nothing man has created. No angel or demon can create. No one
can stop or change the destiny the Creator has for each being living in this
world. Man has only been uncovering the secrets locked in the created universe
and misappropriated the praise and honour due to the creator. That is why
whatever man has invented is misused sooner than later. Man kills whatever it
did not create and as the law of compensation demands, man has always paid with
gradual or sudden death through internal dissatisfaction with the self,
emotional depression, ethnic jealousies and mass homicide that resulted and
still results in political or religious genocide, fratricidal and international
wars. Check the history of mankind from the creation story in scriptures of all
religions and show me any that had no religio-political undertone?
Inter-religious harmony could have been instituted centuries ago since all
cultures had legends similar to the one man, Enoch, who pleased the Creator so
well, that he was translated to enjoy eternal bliss in fellowship with the
Supreme Being. There is no scripture in the world that does not accept that
there is only one Supreme Creator of all that exists. The only difference is
that some explain away polytheism as if God has an administrative structure
similar to our mundane ways of ruling ourselves. There are really no pagans in
this world! Replace their many gods and spirits with angels and prophets, you
will notice for the first time that you have the same result; One God, One
Created Universe and therefore One Human Family.
We are all his sons and daughters, with same blood
chemistry, similar genetical classifications, varied facial differentiations,
but, we have same anatomy and physiology and we mate and produce human babies
alike! Laughter, crying and singing are international languages. Anger, fear,
hatred, depression and sorrow are human emotions that have no boundaries.
Conception, gestation and birth are exactly the same as well modalities of
dying due to accidents, diseases or old age. What else does any intelligent
being need to prove that all humans are equal at birth, but differentiations
arise due to parentage, geographical locations, education and inherited or
achieved social statuses occasioned by opportunities each one experiences in
both clement or unfavourable internal and external environments? Interracial
squabbles are man-made! The non-partisan events we organise like the World Cups
and Beauty Pageants confirm we are children of one Father and so could live
amicably. Scientific discoveries and inventions all of us use passionately
prove that all mankind can live in peace. Let us eschew ethnocentric bias,
prejudice and parochialism. The multiplication of faiths, denominations and
churches are the handiwork of the evil one. Let us wake from centuries of
hypnotic enslavement and justify our claim to the appellation: HOMO SAPIENS
SAPIENTIS! Therefore, what we need is to go back and imitate Enoch, the first human
that was taken up to be with the Creator lest he be corrupted by other immoral
peers of his time!
“Freedom of Religion is the right of a person to form personal religious beliefs according to his
or her own conscience and to give public expression to these beliefs in worship
and teaching, restricted only by the requirements of public order. Religious
liberty differs from toleration in that toleration presupposes preferential
treatment of a particular creed by the state because it is an established church
or, in some cases, is the predominant religion of the population.
To achieve worldwide
religious freedom may seem impossible or sound like a mirage, but not to this
astute thinker, this writer who has been under its theocratic enslavement for
half-a-century. His answer is worth experimenting with after you have read;
- THE KENEZIAN CREED,
- DR KENEZ LETTER TO
EDUCATIONISTS,
- THE PRINCI
- A C
- THE INTERNATIONAL MANIFESTO OF
I
- THE AN
After
you have meditated on their contents, the formula for how ONE WORLD RELIGION
can materialise is crystal clear to all rational human beings. We must first of
take stock of the numerical strength of the plethora of factions in the major
world religions for now and evaluate how counter-productive the multiplicity of
religious organisations has demoralised and scandalised the youth.
It is
hoped that the few Rational Sons and Daughters of the Almighty Creator who are
now CITIZENS OF OUR GLOBAL VILLAGE WILL FIND THE GLOB AL RELIGION FOR A PERMANE NT WORLD PEACE! CAN YOU ASSIST US
PROPAGATE THIS NOVEL FELLOWSHIP OF ALL NATU RAL SCIEN TISTS RELYING ON THE EVIDE NT TRUTHS FROM NATURAL LAWS AND UNADULTERATED THEOSOPHY!
https://sites.google.com/site/globalcontroversiesunlimited/
https://sites.google.com/site/sanitationforglobalpeace/home
The subtitles for the second, the third & the sixth in case
they are difficult to find are;
· https://sites.google.com/site/kenezhealthklinik/home/new-drug-for-managing-hiv-aids-by-hafani-research-consortium
· https://sites.google.com/site/worldcontroversyunlimited/welcome-to-the-international-philosophers-forum
Dr Jideofo Kenechukwu Danmbaeze a.k.a.Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez,
The Humble Vessel of the Holy Spirit of the Creator of the Universe.
Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Existential Family Therapist,
Emails: saintkenez@yahoo.co.uk or agunabu1948@gmail.com
IBO GOVERNMENT
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INDIGENOUS POLITICAL STRUCTURE
IBO GOVERNMENT
Details
of traditional Igbo government and social structure varied from place to place
throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but its characteristic
nature remained the same. The basic unit of Igbo life was the village group,
and the most universal institution was the role of the family head. This was
usually the oldest man of the oldest surviving generation. His role primarily
involved settling family disputes, and because he controlled the channel of
communication with the all-important ancestors, he commanded great respect and
reverence. In some areas the government of chiefs and elders was composed of a
governing age grade, in others the council of elders was made up of the oldest
members of particular families.
Titles
that the men earned played a major part in the Ibo society. There was a
hierarchy of ascending titles that were to be taken in order, accompanied by an
ascending scale of payments. The system acted as a simple form of social
security, in that those who acquired titles paid a particular fee, and then
were entitled to share in the payments of those who later acquired titles. Men
who were going to acquire a title had to go through intense rituals. This
symbolized respect as well as success.
A
political institution that was widespread around the Ibo tribe was that of the
age-grade. Every age-grade was responsible for specific areas of community
service. This often promoted rivalry between the groups of age-grade. This was
actually a valuable instrument of social control, in that in order to preserve
the good name of their age-group, its members became involved in disciplining
and restraining those who tended to cause trouble within the community. Secret
societies around the Ibo villages were also an instrument of social control.
The members of the secret society would appear at night, masked, in the
disguise of supernatural beings. Any offenders in the community would be
denounced. The unknown origin of the members and their supernatural aura
(distinctive atmosphere) meant that this whole performance was taken with great
seriousness.
Government
(in this paragraph and the next one)
Usually,
the kinds of decisions that had to be made in traditional Igbo societies were
either judicial or connected with relations with other groups. In a judicial
case, it was the responsibility of the lineage head to try to settle the matter
before bringing it to the elders, who would hear the case in public. A decision
that affected the whole town, such as the declaration of war, would generally
be put to all the free adult males of the town. The nature of these
institutions was extremely flexible - for example, a man who had proven his
skills at war in the past might be selected to lead the people through this
time of crisis, yet would be expected to relinquish this leadership once the
time of crisis was past. If the facts of a case were unclear, then in some
instances the Igbo would turn to an oracle or to divination.
Igboland
possessed a regional network of oracles, such as the Agbala of Awku, or the Ibibi Ukpabe at Arochukwu. These oracles claimed to
ascertain the truth of every matter, and were dependent on visitors from every
part of Igboland. They rested on deliberate deception and were extremely
expensive, far beyond the reach of the poor. However, their good reputation did
depend on the fairness of their judgements, which kept their tendency for
exploitation in check.
Perhaps
it was the small scale of their political institutions that made Igboland such
a good example of what a democracy should be. Some of the first European
visitors to this region were struck by the extent to which democracy was truly
practiced. A combination of popular participation and real respect for those
with ability and experience, led to the smooth running of political
institutions.
On a
smaller scale, Igbo families generally lived in compounds, each a small segment
of the village group. The head of the compound was usually the oldest male and
within each compound were clusters of huts belonging to different domestic
groups. The head of each domestic group is responsible for its members. In Igbo
society, seniority by age regulated social placement. Married life was the
normal condition for adults, and polygamy for the men was the ideal - in fact
it acted as an important indication of status. Wives were ranked according to
the order in which they married the common husband. Another important feature
of Igbo kinship apart from the precedence given to the male, is the idea of
seniority by birth. The first male and female children of the domestic group,
irrespective of the ranking of their mothers, were given special status, and
occupied very important and responsible social positions in the family.
One
of the most important distinctions the Igbo make in their status system is that
between Diala and non-Diala. The Diala is a freeborn, a full citizen,
whose status at birth is symbolized by the burial of his umbilical cord,
preferably at the foot of an oil palm tree. A Diala is free to attempt to gain a
title, the only barrier to social climbing being the membership fees that these
institutions demand. In contrast, the Ohu was a slave who had very few
rights. However, these slaves were more often as not absorbed into the lineage
of the master they served, becoming their companions and often marrying their
daughters. An Osu was a cult-slave; they were a
people hated and despised , and to refer to a Diala or an Ohu as an Osu was the gravest of insults. The Osu system of slavery originated from the
Owerri-Okigwi region. The Diala belief is that the Osu are descended from a people who,
at the recommendation of a diviner, were dedicated to a deity, in order that
they may become his servitor. A particular village, lineage or individual that
had been experiencing illness or misfortune would “dedicate” this slave to the
deity, in the belief that the slave would then carry out the sins of the
dedicator. The Osu were feared and hated because they
reminded the Diala of their guilt. Unlike slaves,
they could not be absorbed into their master’s lineage; on the other hand, they
were protected by their deity from being sold or killed. The cult-slave status
of the Osu was legally abolished by the
Eastern Nigerian Government in 1956.
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